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On the recordMarch 2, 2009
AIG has given the counterparties $20 billion. Those people could be just about anybody in the world. Why won’t the Fed disclose who those are?
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Ron Wyden
Democratic · Oregon

Editor's note · Context

Wyden questions the Fed's lack of transparency regarding AIG's financial dealings.

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